[Evaluation of the clinical course of pulmonary tuberculosis in aged women].
The course of pulmonary tuberculosis in 34 women aged over 70 and in 30 women aged 35-55 years as controls was analysed. Tuberculosis in the elderly women was detected more frequently and with rather severe forms of the disease when compared to the control group, thus making them a serious epidemic hazard. It proved possible to conduct treatment of practically all these patients with 4 tuberculostatics. Streptomycin was the least tolerated drug. X-ray pictures in 25 per cent of the cases indicated the presence of the middle-lobe syndrome. Besides, all these subjects were excretors of tubercle bacilli. The similar X-ray picture was seen in nobody in the control group. Though extensive changes in the lungs of the elderly women were found later, the course of their management was similar to that of the control group; all the patients displayed no sputum mycobacteria.
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*
D000995:Antitubercular Agents
Otsenka klinicheskogo techeniia tuberkuleza legkikh u zhenshchin preklonnogo vozrasta.